"So what would you like to do now beautiful?" Vaughn asked, wrapping his arm around her waist as they walked back to the car. She took his arm and looked at his watch.
"Well it's only just gone 4, so maybe we could go see Weiss and then do something else?" She suggested and Vaughn smiled.
"Ok, but on one condition…"
"Name it."
"You don't tell him about what happened back there." He glanced back at the building as he opened the car door for her.
Sydney laughed and climbed into the car. "Oh, you mean me beating you at hockey?" He looked at her with his puppy eyes, knowing that she couldn't say no to him now. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Fine. I suppose I can keep it a secret for now." She kissed him on the cheek as he started the car.
"Should we perhaps call him and tell him that we're coming over?"
"No, let's just turn up!" Sydney shrugged and continued to look out of the window. "Hey, do you remember…"
"Last Christmas?" He finished her sentence for her.
Sydney laughed, turning to face him. "How did you know that was what I was going to say?" She looked at him seriously, wondering how he could possibly have known.
"Because everytime we talk about Weiss, I can tell that you are remembering what he did last Christmas."
Flashback
"Hey guys," Weiss started a conversation as he unpacked the various baubles from their containers. "Thanks for letting me help decorate your house. It's not as fun doing it when you live by yourself." Sydney stood up from the couch and gave him a hug.
"Don't mention it. Besides if we hadn't have asked you, I would have ended up decorating the whole house myself." She rolled her eyes. "Michael's not much of a decorator!" She whispered in Weiss' ear loud enough for Vaughn to hear her.
He picked up the nearest piece of tinsel and tossed it at her. "I heard that."
Weiss jumped up from the floor and left the room, returning minutes later with a bag. "I have a gift for you guys." Sydney smiled, as she went and sat on her husband's knee. They both watched as Weiss brought a set of fairy lights out of the bag. "These are to go on the roof of the house. I was thinking that maybe we could drape them down…" He began to get lost in his thoughts as Sydney and Vaughn looked at each other and shook their heads. They had agreed to let Weiss decorate the inside of the home, but they hadn't mentioned doing anything to the outside.
"Er, Weiss…. I don't think that we should…"
"Ok, so you guys have to decorate the tree." He cut Sydney off, not listening to a word that she was saying. "And I'll go and sort out the roof." Before they could object he was out of the house. They both started laughing, as they pictured what the outside of their new home could end up looking like.
"Well you heard the man, we best started decorating." Sydney stood up and held out her hand to help him up.
They began to decorate the tree, and every so often Vaughn would stop and switch on the TV but the minute he sat down to watch, Sydney would throw more decorations at him and switch it off again.
Forty minutes later they were standing infront of a perfectly decorated tree. Sydney leaned back onto Vaughn's chest, his arms wrapped securely around her.
"I think we make a good team." He whispered in her ear, before trailing kisses down her neck.
"What do you mean we? I decorated most of this tree." She objected and spun around to face him.
"Well what's yours is mine." He laughed, leaning forward to kiss her. Scooping her up in his arms, he walked over to the couch and lay her down on it. He lay down beside her and deepened the kiss.
"Wait." Sydney pushed away from him. "What about Weiss?"
"What about him?" Vaughn asked as he tried to kiss her again, only she turned her head so he caught her cheek and not her lips.
"Well he's been out there for a very long time. It doesn't take that long to hang out lights."
"You wanna go check on him?" She nodded so he helped her up. She grabbed a jacket from the back of the chair and they walked outside to find the ladder that Weiss had used, lying on the grass.
"What the hell happened here?" Sydney asked as they both looked at the discarded ladder.
"Er… guys?" They heard Weiss' voice and spun around to see him hanging onto the chimney.
Sydney laughed and threw her hand over her mouth. "What are you doing?" She was finally able to ask.
"I was putting up the lights and the ladder fell!" He readjusted his grip on the chimney. "I actually thought of shouting down the chimney to you guys, but I didn't know if it was a real chimney or not."
Sydney and Vaughn looked at each other and tried not to laugh. Only Weiss could manage to get stuck on their rooftop on Christmas Eve.
"A little help here would be nice…." He shouted down to them. He was shivering from the cold; he had only gone out wearing a thin jumper, not thinking that he would be outside for very long.
Vaughn picked up the ladder and propped it up to the side of the house. Weiss quickly moved away from the chimney and rejoined his friends on the ground.
"I'm thinking maybe lights we're the way to go…" He told them and ran back inside the house to get warm.
End Flashback
"He is never going to live that down is he?" Vaughn asked as he pulled the car into Weiss's driveway.
"Not as long as I'm around." Sydney laughed. They got out of the car and walked up to his doorstep.
They knocked and a couple of seconds later Weiss appeared at the door. They started laughing again when they saw him, and he just stood there looking confused.
"Hey guys, whatcha laughing at?"
Sydney quickly hit Vaughn's chest, silently telling to him stop laughing. "Just some lame joke that he told in the car." Vaughn shook his head and sighed. "Can we come in?"
"Sure." Weiss walked into his house and they followed him inside. "It's your anniversary today right?"
Sydney nodded and walked into Vaughn's arm. "It sure is."
"What have you been doing to celebrate?"
"We went the beach and played hockey for a little while." Sydney replied as they three of them went to sit in the living room.
"You kick his ass?" Weiss asked her.
Sydney's smile grew. "Totally." They high-fived, while Vaughn groaned and threw his head back against the couch.
"I am here you know!" He pointed out, staring at them both.
"Aww, I'm sorry." Sydney gave him a kiss on the cheek. "He put up a fair fight!" She told Weiss and once she thought that Vaughn wasn't looking she shook her head and mouthed 'it was too easy!'
"Hey I saw that!" Vaughn playfully punched her arm and then folded his own arms across his chest and pretended to sulk.
Weiss and Sydney rolled their eyes at him and continued to talk. He pretended to not be listening, but a couple of minutes later he couldn't help but rejoin the conversation. Sydney and Vaughn stayed with Weiss for just under an hour before leaving to continue with their celebrations.